>>2412252disclaimer: i am NOT advocating for the Russian nationalist position so i'm not sure why you keep implying i believe their delusions wholeheartedly. from their perspective it wouldn't be a junior position vis a vis America because each nation would recognize each others sphere of influence whereas Russia literally shares a long and contiguous land border with China. they would have much more leverage over the US than they do with China and the supposed Christian values of both potential regimes would be a boon for both.
like this is literally what they believe and you're over here telling me shit i already know, like duh cultural idealism doesn't define geopolitics. but i have no idea why you assume that right-wing clash-of-civilizations nationalism doesn't think so. the fact is that the nationalists will be a big player in the domestic struggle in Russia to come, and the communists are not ready for it at all. and jokers like you will be stuck defending the nationalists by proxy because you don't think they exist or are inconvenient for your position.
>>2412267There's no evidence the Russian state behaves or will behave the way you describe. You fell for Democrat propaganda meant solely for US election purposes, not making sense of the world. I'm not sure why after 2022 you even bother believing it. Trump 1.0 and 2.0 clashed with Putin, who in turn has secured Russia's post Soviet transition in the world as fundamentally at odds with the West whether liberal or conservative. The world isn't divided by ideals. Successors to both Trump and Putin are positioned to continue the clash.
Also even in the fantasy scenario, it does not secure a Russian position in Europe. It doesn't do anything except achieve some reverse Kissinger completely divorced from that issue plus the middle east and its intersection with the Caucasus. Instead there's just some assumption of a Russian antagonism with China prophesied since the 90s, with the opposite consistently being the trend since.
Again I have no idea why bother dismissing the 30 year picture for a media narrative tied to a burger culture war and never meant to scale outside of it
>>2412256oof what's not to learn.
ex-communists in Ukraine literally talking like nazis, treasonous and treacherous people on your communist party. Rethought of Lenin's imperialism, using a small fraction Kautsky thought: superimperialism or "ultra-imperialism" as a contrast, in which nation-cartels form an alliance club (NATO) to avoid wars and conflict, erasing national conflicts between capitalist states, through the monopolies, but leaving aside all the atheorethical parts and reformism that Kautsky used.
>>2412303In fact, in April 8, 2014, communists in Ukraine already knew what was brewing with the nationalists. how the state failed to to bring peace.
until this day, all the assets of the Communist Party of Ukraine has been seized by zelya's goons.
>>2412437there are no permanent strategic interests. all the effort spent to maintain the Syrian state and a warm water port was thrown away because Donbass took far more precedence. if the US or EU-skeptic Germany or France can provide concessions then the strategic considerations would shift again. Russia still isn't configured to be the gas field for China and India, and much of its infrastructure was built on the premise of primarily supplying Europe with energy. if the West can get Russia to pivot itself against China in exchange for gibs why wouldn't they take that? because of muh strategic partnerships? what did Russia do to help Iran this past year? isn't Iran going to China now for fighter jets and AA systems?
out of all the BRICS countries the Russian state is by far the most strategically contingent, even moreso than India. people like to rag on China for being self-centered but there is no concept of a Zhongguo Shijie when there is the Russkiy Mir.
>>2412515the fact that you though this shit was so good you put a watermark on it
utterly embarrassing lol
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/07/ukraine-anti-corruption-independence-restored-zelenski-weakened-army-in-trouble.htmlUkraine - Anti-Corruption Independence Restored, Zelenski Weakened, Four Cities Are Falling
>On Monday the 21st of July the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) searched offices of the independent anti-corruption police (NABU) and anti-corruption prosecutor office (SAPO) and detained several of its investigators. A day later the Zelenski regime pushed a law through parliament which ended the independence of both entities by putting them under control of the prosecutor general.
>The move had been planned for months (in Russian) but was executed in haste after NABU and SAPO had served a notices-of-investigation to people near to the president.
>But Zelenski had miscalculated the step. There were highly visible local protests and the EU stepped in by threatening to withhold subsidies on which the Ukrainian state depends.
>Two days after his strike against the independent anti-corruption entities Zelenski had to pull back. Today the parliament reestablished the independence of NABU and SAPO.
<The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) has passed a law restoring powers to Ukraine’s key anti-corruption agencies – the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
<A total of 331 MPs voted in favour of the presidential bill [..]. No MPs voted against the bill, and no one abstained. Nine MPs did not vote.
<Under the new law, SAPO will now independently oversee the procedural supervision of NABU investigations – and is no longer under the control of the Prosecutor General.
>The new law was signed by the president and is now in force.
>By his misstep and its retraction from it Zelenski demonstrated a fatal weakness which his political enemies will soon use to end his control of the country.
>Several additional corruption investigations against Zelenski's entourage are pending. The most severe one is against Timur Mindich, a longtime business partner of the president nicknamed "Zelenski's wallet". NABU had wiretapped Mindich's apartment which was used by Zelenski and others to discuss 'businesses'. (Mindich's bugged luxury apartment in Kiev is said to include a room with a golden toilet.)
>With the independence of NABU and SAPO restored, new investigations against Mindich and other people near to Zelenski, and potentially against himself, are likely to soon be published.
>They will demonstrate that the president has lost the ability to protect those who work with him.
>In consequence the majority of his party in parliament is shrinking (machine translation):
<People's Deputy Dmytro Kostyuk announced from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada that he was leaving the Servants of the People faction due to the situation with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
<According to him, deputies were forced to vote for the draft law on depriving the NABU and SAPO of their powers, threatening them with criminal cases. He himself also supported this bill a week ago. …
<Now the faction formally consists of 231 deputies, which gives "Servant of the People" the rights of a mono-majority coalition. [..] However, if six people leave the faction, its number will be reduced, it will be less than the required 226 votes, and thus the ruling mono-majority will disappear.
>The opposition, with former president Petro Poroshenko in the lead, will soon be able to clip the president's wings.
>The political chaos in Kiev is reinforced by the catastrophic situation on the battle field. There are four significant population centers which are likely to fall under Russian control within the next month.1. Kupiansk (pre-war population 26,000) - The Russian forces are pressing from the north towards the west of the city to cut its main supply line.
2. Siversk (pre-war population 10,000) - Russian forces have captured large parts of the woods north of Siversk and are now moving in from all sides.
3. Konstantinivka (pre-war population 8,500) - Russian forces are pushing west from the finally taken Chasiv-Yar agglomeration to cut the northern supply line to Konstantinivka. Russian forces southwest of the city are moving northward for the same purpose.
4. Prokovsk (pre-war population 85,000) - Ukrainian defense lines around and within the city have broken down. Russian forces are already in the city. Supply and exit routes to the north and west are barely passable.
>The Ukrainian forces lack infantry. Some Ukrainian brigades have less than 100 people to man several miles long defense lines. There is a severe lack of mortar and artillery ammunition. The Russian side has more and better drones available in higher numbers. The recent re-organization of the Ukrainian army into corps sized structures has only increase the organizational chaos.
>The Ukrainian army, like the Ukrainian state, is in the process of falling apart. Unique IPs: 20